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She/her. Also known as Harlow's Monkey 🥚🧶

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Michigan Adoptee Rights Coalition @michiganadoptees.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A Louisville judge says Jonah Bevin, adopted son of ex-Gov. Matt Bevin, can intervene in his parents' divorce. He cites abuse in teen homes and an invalid degree. Bevin, who pushed adoption reform as governor, adopted Jonah from Ethiopia in 2012. 🥚
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Judge lets Matt Bevin's adopted son seek child support, denies request to seal divorce
A court hearing should be held to determine what relief the adopted son of Matt and Glenna Bevin could be entitled to, a judge has ruled.
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Karen Pickell @karenpickell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is alarming. "Beginning about a month ago, USCIS started to withhold and redact large portions of my clients’ A Files, sometimes withholding more than 80 percent of all pages in the file...." #immigration #adoption #adoptees #citizenship
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NPR @npr.org · 19/04/2025
Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.
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She grew up believing she was a U.S. citizen. Then she applied for a passport
Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Thank you, Imani Cruzen for talking with me about the Adoptee Consciousness Model 🥚 and the investigation into fraud in Korean adoptions. Great to see adoptee scholar Kim Park Nelson and Korean American scholar Richard Lee also quoted. www.twincities.com/2025/04/05/m...
twincities.com
MN adoptees respond to fraud reports in South Korean adoption programs
Following a nearly three-year investigation, a South Korean commission in late March shared that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program with widespread frau…
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/04/2025
BREAKING: South Korea’s Constitutional Court removes impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office. The unanimous decision comes four months after Yoon threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.
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South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office over ill-fated declaration of martial law
South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, four months after he threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law and sending troops to parliament in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
They never thought we would come back. 🥚 www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/2022...
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Dialogues with Adoptees: Let's make adoptees' rights mainstream - The Korea Times
gettyimagesbankThis article is the 30th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected that the children they had sent away through adoption would return as adults w...
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Marion County FL United @mcflunited.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
You've been voting, you've been protesting. What else can you do to make your community a better place? Check out this handy doc listing all kinds of actions you can take - mutual aid, libraries and schools, political education, advocacy, and more!
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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Did you know that Kit Myers' book, The Violence of Love, is available for FREE/open access?? 🥚You can read it now!! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-vi...
ucpress.edu
The Violence of Love by Kit Myers - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 18/02/2025
she is an intercountry #adoptee from China; she has two heart conditions and she requires a transplant; her hospital will not approve the transplant until her adopters agree to her receiving flu and COVID vaccines, which they adamantly refuse to do. She is in heart failure.
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JD Vance’s relative, 12, refused heart transplant over vaccine status
Adaline Deal’s mom says she decided her daughter wouldn’t need a Covid-19 and flu jab because ‘the Holy Spirit put it on our hearts’
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.” Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
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Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere
What’s more, we’re expanding.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...
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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.
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Adoptee Advocates of Michigan @aaom-adoptees.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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South Korean adoptees struggle with US citizenship policies
Adoptees caught between 2 countries' past policies, leaving some stateless - Anadolu Ajansı
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Michigan Adoptee Rights Coalition @michiganadoptees.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
www.buzzfeed.com/ajanibazile/... #adopteesky
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Black People Who Were Adopted By White Parents Are Sharing Their Experiences, And It's A Tough Read
"It’s rough growing up when people keep telling you 'you don’t act Black' yet you don’t look white. It could be awkward going to extended family gatherings with people looking at you like you don’t fi...
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is what I think about as well. You might feel there is little you can do, but you can document, record, write; we can share what we are seeing, reading, hearing. We are history, not just gov data.
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The Imprint @theimprintnews.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Researchers are documenting the experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native women whose children were adopted or placed in foster care.
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Researchers Study Native Women Whose Children Were Adopted
Researchers are documenting the experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native women whose children were adopted.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The only immigrant trying to destroy the country.
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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
two drafts
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.” Maxine Hong Kingston What are you creating? For me it's hand-knit socks 🧶 and submitting an article about adoptee consciousness 🥚
My feet in a pair of blue lace hand-knit socks.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Adoptee Advocates of Michigan @aaom-adoptees.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Join AU for an open discussion on immigration and citizenship issues affecting Transnational Adoptees. Stay informed about issues impacting our community and get updates on registration by subscribing to the AU newsletter: buff.ly/3WCiARO
Open Discussion. Immigration and Citizenship for Transnational Adoptees. Save the Date February 12th 2025 4pm PT, 6pm CT, 7pm ET
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
New published study about primary care physician's approach to treating adult adoptees. 🥚 (as well as others with limited family medical history) www.annfammed.org/content/23/1...
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A Qualitative Study of Primary Care Physicians’ Approaches to Caring for Adult Adopted Patients
PURPOSE Adoption has lifelong health implications for 7.8 million adopted people and their families in the United States. The majority of adoptees have limited family medical history (LFMH). Primary c...
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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
we will keep track of all the changes, fight in every way we can, and deepen into our visions. but find your grief practice. so many people are going to suffer and die in so many unnecessary ways in the short term because of the decisions and moves being made. learn to feel your grief as we go.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This is becoming absurd—federal employees are now being told to remove pronouns from their email signatures. We will always stand by our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, no matter how many things we’re asked to delete or change. Inclusivity is at the core of who we are.
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
So glad to get my copy today! I had the honor of providing a blurb. This is an essential contribution to critical adoption scholarship @kit-myers.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/the-vi...
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The Violence of Love by Kit Myers - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hey SF Bay Area adoptees: I’m so excited to be in conversation with Kit Myers on March 3 at SF State University— would love to see you there 🥚🧾🍃
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
From @theimprintnews.bsky.social Georgia Advocates Hope to Ease Adoptees’ Access to Their Original Birth Certificates imprintnews.org/top-stories/...
imprintnews.org
Advocates Fight for Adoptee Birth Certificate Access in Georgia
Under current Georgia law, original birth records are “sealed and locked” once an adoption is finalized. A bill expected to this year aims to change that.
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Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Six sisters separated and adopted by different families. Reunited, now they're trying to find their brother. Adoptees have every right to know their kinship and separation story, but adoption isn't about the children. 🥚😡 #AdopteeSky www-today-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.toda...
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Sisters' Search For Long-Lost Brother Goes Viral
"He's the missing piece."
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 22/01/2025
Hey, it’s been a while since I updated this starter pack, and in the meantime a lot of #adoptee folks have joined Bluesky. If you’re interested in being added, let me know! I only add an account when I have consent.
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Korean adoptee artist discusses new project focused on longing and loss as an adoptee 🥚 canvasrebel.com/meet-jae-car...
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
S. Korean Adoptees to Mark 10th Anniversary of Conference 🥚 m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/articl...
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S. Korean Adoptees to Mark 10th Anniversary of Conference
Hundreds of internationally adopted South Koreans will gather in Seoul this week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of an adoptee conference.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I think the safest thing to do is let other people report on what he said, rather than listen to him myself. But even second hand smoke can kill you.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My one bit of hashtag-resist advice is to start a blog. I'm 100 percent serious. A blog, a newsletter, a tumblr - whatever. The blogging craze erupted largely in response to the Bush era & it's time for the people to reclaim their own platforms. Whatever you use social media for, put it on your blog
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shaaren @shaaren.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Transracial Intercountry Adoptees: Adoptees for Justice launched this 24/7 hotline if you (or other adoptees) have been detained by IC3. Memorize this number: 1-844-500-3222. They also have a Know Your Rights App available for Apple users (coming soon for Androids). www.adopteesforjustice.org
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Adoptees for Justice
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Old school knitting - knitted flat and seamed, colorwork purls on the back! 😂 This was the style of knitting I did when I learned as a 13 yo so I'm feeling nostalgic as I knit this. Pattern is Anna by Martin Story in Rowan magazine #69 🧶
Gray, yellow, white, coral, black and teal balls of yarn.The start of a sleeve being knitted. The background is gray and there are yellow, white, black, and teal triangles
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
People will argue adoptees are overreacting but there's no guarantee the incoming administration won't question or negate our citizenship 🥚 www.thebaltimorebanner.com/national/tru...
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Documented but scared: Why some adopted from overseas worry about Trump
The Trump presidency creates uncertainty, angst among international adoptees.
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I made a short MLK Day playlist for the students in my civil rights class. I thought some of y'all might want something more uplifting for the holiday and the other thing taking place tomorrow #MLKDay open.spotify.com/playlist/6uY...
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MLK Day
Playlist · Austin McCoy · 20 items
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
A recent article in @theatlantic.com about Meta sent me down the rabbit hole and long story short, got me thinking about social networking vs social media. As someone who started out wanting to be part of social networking now I get why I hate social media www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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‘I Won’t Touch Instagram’
TikTok users are searching for a new home. Are there any good ones left?
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Chicago bakery owner discovers regular customer is long-lost son. 🥚 youtu.be/oARZmGuHSEA?...
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Chicago bakery owner discovers regular customer is long-lost son
YouTube video by TODAY
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 17/01/2025
if you want to invoke #adoption as a way to solve problems, i think it would be useful exercise to ask yourself under what conditions *you* think a person deserves to be deprived of the title of parent of their own offspring, and how likely it is that in *actual* cases, those conditions were met.
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Adoptee Rights Law Center @adopteerights.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Updated maps and bills from Adoptees United for state-based legislation that impacts adopted people. New (or returning) bills now filed in Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia 🥚https://adopteesunited.org/legislation/state/
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State Legislation | Adoptees United Inc.
Analysis and action on state-level legislation impacting adopted people in the United States.
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Yes!! I hate it when people use adoption in this way!
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New blog post: transnational adoption as postcolonial cozy 🥚 harlows-monkey.com/2025/01/06/t...
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Transnational adoption as post-colonial cozy
A few years ago my good friend Kim Park Nelson sent me a link to an article by Erica Maria Cheung for in media res titled “Postcolonial Cozy.” Cheung was referring to the international …
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
"Oh wow," she said sarcastically, "we don't have enough stories about the hardships on prospective parents adopting a child from china. Thank goodness this play delves into the prejudices adoptive parents face for trying to rescue an orphan." 🥚 haringeycommunitypress.co.uk/2025/01/03/w...
haringeycommunitypress.co.uk
Writer’s debut play at Highgate venue explores international adoption
Too Many Books is billed as an "intimate production" that sheds light on issues of identity, cultural displacement and the emotional sacrifices parents make
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
South Korean adoptees and families rocked by fraud allegations apnews.com/article/sout...
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South Korean adoptees and families rocked by fraud allegations
Peg Reif was among more than 120 who contacted The Associated Press this fall, after a series of stories and a documentary made with Frontline exposed how South Korea created a baby pipeline, designed...
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
In the adoptee 🥚community, gratitude is often used to shame and blame adoptees. But I am grateful for my adoptee community. I appreciate each of you who was part of my life in 2024!
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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉 @harvestoak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Anyone who finalizes a foster care placement, or finishes the court proceedings for adoption on or near Christmas Day, don’t say the kid is a “Christmas miracle” or “the best Christmas gift ever”. You are charged with taking care of kids who have gone through immense trauma.
A small baby in a box
The text says babies are not Christmas presents
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 24/12/2024
Liberals in the USA will cry out against family separation at the border while also planning to take advantage of tax credits to adopt children taken from their parents as punishment for the sin of being poor and not white. 🥚
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I started working with a financial planner & their forms of course include a question about family health history No "unable to answer" option and couldn't submit w/o a response. Met with the planner yesterday & let them know how this is a problem for adoptees 🥚 (1)
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
These are 50 of 2024’s the best nonfiction books, including work by Aaron Robertson, Rebecca Nagle, Isabella Hammad, and more.
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Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024
This past year was as dismaying as it was disorienting (as was the year prior, as will be the year to come). As we collectively drown in a daily deluge of disinformation it is to books that we turn…
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